US EditionYahoo Scout Is an AI ‘Answer Engine’ that Wants to Challenge Perplexity and Google’s AI Mode
Scout uses Anthropic Claude to combine web and Yahoo data into verifiable answers with interactive media and integrates AI features across Yahoo’s product portfolio.
- On Tuesday Yahoo debuted Scout in beta on scout.yahoo.com and inside the Yahoo Search app on iOS and Android in the U.S., powered by Anthropic's Claude.
- To power richer answers, Yahoo built Scout to synthesize web and proprietary data, embedding it across Mail, News, Finance, Sports and Shopping to add summaries and stock analysis.
- Scout's interface foregrounds links and source clicking, including inline citations with up to nine sources, interactive media, and structured lists and tables for easy verification.
- Yahoo is pitching Scout as its return to the search conversation, with CEO Jim Lanzone saying it could replace traditional Yahoo Search while monetizing through affiliate links and testing ads on a small percentage of queries against Google and Perplexity.
- Yahoo plans to add personalization and new vertical features over time, aiming to keep the open web visible and support publishers by joining Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace pilot while leveraging data from 250 million monthly users, 500 million profiles, and 18 trillion annual signals.
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Better than Perplexity and Google AI Mode? Yahoo enters chat with new AI-powered search rival
Yahoo has launched its latest AI-powered search engine called Yahoo Scout, which aims to transform search results into direct answers using user data and web content. The feature is currently available to users in the US in beta.
Yahoo Scout is an AI ‘answer engine’ that wants to challenge Perplexity and Google’s AI mode
With Scout, Yahoo is entering the AI search race by betting that users still want visible sources, challenging rivals like Google and Perplexity that increasingly keep links in the background.
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